Dear colleagues at Open Glam

My name is Berta Corredor, and I am writing to you on behalf of Europeana, European platform for cultural heritage. I hope this finds you well. We would appreciate it if you could help us to disseminate this initiative: GIF IT UP 2020 https://gifitup.net/.

This very special year, in which the Internet and social networks have been so present, European platform Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en, has organized *GIF IT UP 2020 https://gifitup.net/, *an annual competition that proposes creating animated images about *cultural heritage* and sharing them online.

This year’s contest, which will be held *throughout October, *is going even more global in its offer of inspiring and diverse content to reuse and remix and get creative. Along with Europeaana’s regular partners, the Digital Public Library of America https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdp.la%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfa5529d171624193e9b408d869cd5a05%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637375677981020788&sdata=hKFGGSenuGA3r5ezrJ0F2%2BDZ3zXVgAF5pLyYQiZDvBI%3D&reserved=0 (DPLA), New Zealand’s Digital NZ https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalnz.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfa5529d171624193e9b408d869cd5a05%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637375677981020788&sdata=70IZeTms5XXgXLtGB0q4CzPHxxLBvJNc1qhYU%2Bj4Lcw%3D&reserved=0 and NationalLibrary of Australia’s Trove https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrove.nla.gov.au%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfa5529d171624193e9b408d869cd5a05%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637375677981030782&sdata=yv9pKE4zTIA1o0LpatGdUxMWZjJ68Sy9fOevpnAE9N0%3D&reserved=0 , two new contentpartners have joined the fun – *Japan**Search*, which gives access to digitised cultural heritage from Japan, and DAG Museums https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdagworld.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfa5529d171624193e9b408d869cd5a05%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637375677981030782&sdata=C08RQCC7M4tuqYWAXqErRsaU62ePNQ3WzwWiK1ato9w%3D&reserved=0 in Kolkata, India.

*HOW* *TO* *PARTICIPATE?* The competition is open to people of all ages, professionals andamateurs alike. Choose among the millions of public domain works from the partners, create your GIF https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgifitup.net%2Frules%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfa5529d171624193e9b408d869cd5a05%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637375677981040771&sdata=VWCJk5X4fSE2BeS%2F5%2BvyGtJGj4CopT7AmofCVttI%2B%2BI%3D&reserved=0 , and submit your entry https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgifitup.net%2Fsubmit-your-gif%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfa5529d171624193e9b408d869cd5a05%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637375677981040771&sdata=v6bWJY8cZ2epC%2FGDtLHYLeth0CP7atLWt0wxy%2FpAtI0%3D&reserved=0 !

*WHAT* *ARE* *THE* *PRIZES?* Prizes will be online art history courses from *DailyArt* magazine and *Red Bubble* gift cards. There will be a special category for the best GIF & runners-up, 1st time GIF makers, children & teens (below 18) and a bonus category for GIPHY backdrops. Moreover, GIF IT UP has its own GIPHY Channel https://giphy.com/gifitup that exposes the participants’ creations to millions.

I attach the *press release* in *English *and *French, Spanish and Italian*

More info: https://gifitup.net/

Hashtag #GIFITUP2020 https://gifitup.net/#GIFITUP2020

Please let me know if you need any further information.

Berta Corredor

+32 478093622